Banned her resultant “manner” as “unclean”;
The censure base upon himself recoils,
Yet leaves the woman wan and cumbered in his toils.
XXV.
Vicarious punishment for manhood’s crime
Takes grievous toll of all her active prime;
The hap, in educated woman’s fate,
Is instinct with antipathy and hate;
Reason confirming tells, no honest claim
Could ever cause such gust of inward shame,